Word: hpc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HPC last Fall drew up a proposal to have just the fifth course pass-fail. But the new HPC, which took office at the beginning of the semester, was not satisfied with its predecessor's recommendation. They dropped it after it had gotten over a major Administration hurdle -- approval by the Committee on Educational Policy...
Henry R. Norr '68, chairman of the HPC, explained last night why his committee prefers the fourth course plan. One of the main purposes of pass-fail is to encourage students to experiment in courses outside their field of competence that they would not risk taking for a grade, he said. "But if pass-fail means an extra burden -- a fifth course -- it is not likely to foster much experimentation," Norr concluded...
...separate proposal, the HPC recommended that all students be allowed to take a free fifth course. Now, only students in honors tutorial have this option. Unless the fifth course is free, fifth course pass-fail is meaningless, the HPC feels. The recommendation was made a month ago, but there has been no action on it. It will probably be considered in connection with the pass-fail proposal...
There is little chance, the HPC feels, that any form of pass-fail will be instituted by next year. "This is a major innovation which will require long, hard discussion," Norr said. "It can't get through the bureaucracy this Spring...
...HPC proposal goes along with the administration in requiring the instructor's permission to get into a course on a pass-fail basis. But it adds a "plea" that pass-fail students "not be deprived of the opportunity of taking courses that are oversubscribed...